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I am EXTREMELY glad to hear you are ok.
Thanks! So am i!
Yeah, was the tail end of amber, but normally, I'd say this is the safest time to navigate this junction if you've had the right turn green. There is a decent gap till the other lights go green, and anyone heading south should have been held for a while. The only thing you'd need to watch for is peds crossing just after you've turned right, as most don't wait for a green man.
Anyway, I'll keep an eye out now and see if that right filter light ever doesn't go on. Seems odd, as its part of a "superhighway" and plenty of cyclists wait in the little blue box in the middle of the two lanes, so sensors wouldn't necessarily pick them up.
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Personally I think it's far more likely that the lorry saw an empty (minus you obviously) junction and just thought fuck it and went through, than it was a breakdown in the lights and timings at that junction.
Otherwise you'd have to get off your bike and wait at the junction for no right turning traffic (when will that happen at commuting times?) to see if it doesn't trigger. Whereas if you are always there trying to turn right my guess is that it will trigger and you'll corrupt your own experiment.
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That right is iffy and I don't like it. The junction has one of those two stage right turns for the bike lane doesn't it? ie. Stay left and join the embankment in front of the waiting traffic coming across you and go on their green. You also then get every hero blast past you for taking the pole position they sprinted so hard for. It's a bit cycle infrastructure 100% all in but less death defying.
youramericanlover
Redbush
To me it sounds like you were on the tail end of amber and the bin lorry plowed through the red. I am EXTREMELY glad to hear you are ok.